Functional KDE desktop

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I am in the process of upgrading all the ports on a 9.1-PRERELEASE system and I am having a lot of trouble building or running KDE 4.9.5. I couldn't build it due to x11/xsd not building (didn't make a necessary header), or if I worked around that libkonq was not found by cmake. If I manage

What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option AllowEmptyInput False EndSection I am pretty sure this used to be necessary, then

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Chris Rees
On 17 Mar 2013 12:07, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section ServerFlags Option

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version of xorg you are using. Very possibly :) I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1 Does lshal show any inputdevices? I see the following.. udi =

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: BTW I have dbus hald running. Have you read http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html ? I have read it in the past. I _am_ running hald and am happy to do so, but it now appears broken (this system did not need AEI

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 22:47, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: Does lshal show any inputdevices? I see the following.. snip Oops, I just pasted the keyboard entries instead of the mouse ones.. udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_46d_c404_noserial_if0' freebsd.device_file =

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 22:44, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: so I think your setup is somehow broken. You didn't mention which version of xorg you are using. Very possibly :) I have xorg-server 1.7.7_6,1

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I needed to add the following.. Section

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 23:00, Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com wrote: Looks promising. Just to make sure, have you verified that hald is still running? Things can crash... Yep, it's still running. Have you tried to do the build from a clean environment? Not really, I can't just nuke the

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it show up working, but that's annoying and stupid (and not an option on other

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging it (USB) after starting X made it

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013, Matthew D. Fuller wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:37:08PM +1030 I heard the voice of Daniel O'Connor, and lo! it spake thus: Hi, I recently updated my 9.1-PRE system's ports and my previous X config now results in no mouse (but the keyboard does work). I found that I

Re: Functional KDE desktop

2013-03-17 Thread Eric S Pulley
On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:35:02 +1030 Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.au wrote: Hi, I am in the process of upgrading all the ports on a 9.1-PRERELEASE system and I am having a lot of trouble building or running KDE 4.9.5. I couldn't build it due to x11/xsd not building (didn't make a

9.1-stable mergemaster -D fails

2013-03-17 Thread John
running 9.1-STABLE r247548 updating to 9.1-STABLE r248381 When updating to the new version in a zfs beadm environment, mergemaster -D /mnt fails with install: illegal option -- l install (1) in the new version has an added -l switch which is used in bsd.own.mk which in turn is used by

Re: What is the Right Way(™) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Don Lewis
On 17 Mar, Andreas Nilsson wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 17/03/2013, at 23:08, Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net wrote: However, some time back, X _did_ start being all stupid about finding the mouse for me. Un/re-plugging

Re: What is the Right Way($(Do(B) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis truck...@freebsd.org wrote: I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently disabled and nothing obvious seems to be broken in Gnome. I haven't had any issues with

Re: What is the Right Way(�o) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Daniel O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 18/03/2013, at 8:54, Don Lewis truck...@freebsd.org wrote: I don't recall if I disabled hald and changed xorg.conf to point to /dev/psm0 before I re-enabled moused. I do know that hald is currently disabled and

Re: What is the Right Way(�o) to run X?

2013-03-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18/03/2013, at 11:51, Kevin Oberman rkober...@gmail.com wrote: This sounds exactly like what I have, although I do find it odd that hal doesn't manage to open /dev/sysmouse and use that (even if it fails for /dev/ums* etc). lshal does show a mount device listed with /dev/sysmouse as the